Mitt Romney shows fiscal responsibility
December 19th, 2006 by eric
The taxpayers of the USA have been tiring of pork for many years. I’m not talking about the “other white meat”. I’m talking about the irresponsible, and wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars on questionable projects. The word “pork” is less used today and the tax and spend politicians have rebranded pork, or pork barrel spending as “earmarks”.
Only recently has he begun to discuss the issue.
For example, earmarks in the spending bill for the Commerce, Justice and State departments grew from 253 in fiscal 1994 to 1,722 in fiscal 2005. The dollar value nearly doubled, as did the percentage of the total bill dedicated to earmarks: from 11.5 percent in 1994 to 21.8 percent in 2005. –Washington Times article “Bush challenges Democrats to cut spending earmarks”
Perhaps Bush is a fim believer in Keynesian economic theory as it relates to the impact of government spending on economic growth. Anyhow, the American people do want a strong economy don’t they? But please, they have been asking someone to show some responsible stewardship for their tax funds.
Mitt Romney has proven that he can do it. He’s kept a balanced budget in Massachusetts. At times during Mitt Romney’s tenure, Massachusetts has benefited from a budget surplus. In 2006 it was estimated that there was a 500 million shortfall. The shortfall was corrected by taking 500 something million from the rainy day fund. Mitt Romney made budget cuts to make up the difference. He took a lot of criticism from Democrats and from the liberal press who said that he was cutting funds from social services. There’s always someone that’s going to cry when their money gets cut back. It takes a tough and responsible leader like Mitt Romney to make the hard funding decisions that are going to lead our country back out of deficit spending.
